A thousand stars are a cathedral

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A thousand stars are a cathedral is a German Christmas carol that Siegfried Köhler composed in 1946 to his own text.

history

The song was written after the end of the Second World War under the impressions of the post-war year 1946. Siegfried Köhler was released early from prisoner-of-war that year because of a tuberculosis disease . In 1951 it was set by Köhler as a secular Christmas cantata and thus in a larger form. Even today it is still very popular in the eastern German states.

The individual parts of the cantata are:

  • 1. Winter song
  • 2. Dance of the Nutcracker
  • 3. The snowman (nursery rhyme)
  • 4. Today the stars dance in a golden dance
  • 5. Christmas pastorals
  • 6. A thousand stars are a cathedral
  • 7. March of the carolers
  • 8. The New Year

Recordings (selection)

  • Christmas carols Siegfried Köhler: A thousand stars are a cathedral op.8 - A Christmas cantata for choir and instruments / Rundfunk-Jugendchor Leipzig, instrument group, conductor: Hans Sandig, vinyl LP, 1960, ETERNA (VEB Deutsche Schallplatten Berlin) 5 30 039.
  • Are The Lights Lit (only cantatas part 6 on B-side title 10), Vinyl LP, 1978, ETERNA 8 26 188.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Siegfried Köhler: A thousand stars are a cathedral . In: Bernd Pachnicke (Ed.): All my thoughts. German folk songs (voice / guitar). Edition Peters, Leipzig 1980, p. 420.
  2. ↑ Max Gerd Schönfelder: Siegfried Köhler portrayed for you . Deutscher Verlag für Musik, Leipzig 1984, p. 12 ( limited preview in Google book search)
  3. ↑ A Thousand Stars Are a Cathedral, op. 8, A Christmas Cantata ( Memento of the original from August 19, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Work information from the Friedrich Hofmeister publishing house @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hofmeister-musikverlag.com
  4. ^ Fred K. Prieberg: Music in Another Germany . Publishing house for science and politics, Cologne 1968, p. 205 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  5. ↑ http://www.caput-online.de/Stuff/Katalog/Katalog.pdf